Posts made by mgr

A common problem seems to occur more frequently with our Java IRC client.

The applet needs permission to access your internet connection to communicate with our IRC server. That causes the [desc=Java runtime environment]JRE[/desc] to alert you that this application needs rights that could possibly threaten your system.

The text in that window is written as block this application (recommended) and the active answer button is "Yes".

I can assure that this applet is permanently checked on our server by a couple of malware check-programs - so there is no risk to damage your system by this Java application. BTW: this program is the most used client on our IRC server and I have never heard a complaint about anything bad with this applet.

So: you can (and have to) click on "NO" for not blocking the application to enter our chat.

@stealfire:

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(Who decided I'm not allowed to use a white font on a gray background and so altered my post?  I took colour theory...)

Well, I took the freedom and even added that comment to your posting:
@stealfire:

[mgre]Please do not use white color on a light-gray background. It is nearly impossible to read the text of your posting. So I removed the color![/mgre]

I need no color theory to distinguish between readable and not readable color combinations - I just try to read a posting. BTW: I usually do not start an order not with the word Please. I just in this very comment asked to think about others too.

Not only for me the combinations with only light contrast [bgcolor=#DDDDDD]like this one[/bgcolor] or [bgcolor=#282828]or this one[/bgcolor] are not easy to read if at all - and I have to think also about members with bad sight.

hmmm - I wonder if that is really possible at all. I know (though some years ago) it was necessary to have IE installed because some API functions in Winblows needed DLLs from IE. Might be (hopefully) that the sentence of the European court[nb]I'm not really sure but IIRC M$ was sentenced to a fine of > 1 billion $[/nb] was a reason too to stop such nonsense. I just don't know how long such a "healing(?) shock" will last or if they retry the same game with the .NET framework (which I hate btw - it makes my computer really painfully slow )

I always voted against M$ IE - the world wide best virus-distributer[nb]in this case it is not only M$'s fault - I know that IE is the the most searched aim for hackers, just: a shame that M$ does not pay enough attention for such attacks. One might guess their programmers get paid for  not necessary gimmicks instead for time (not to mention: paid for security![/nb]!

I can just recommend Opera - I use Opera (currently V 11) since V 4. <something>and was never disappointed with that browser. BTW: Opera is (for me) the only known Browser which is completely compliant with HTML 4 and XHTML with the recommendations from W3C.</something>

That picture convinced me[nb]Have a look at our home page or our staff page[/nb]

Danke  RuPaul dafür, dass Du mir die Arbeit des Suchens nach diesem Posting abgenommen hast. Ich wollte gerade anfangen zu suchen, als ich Deinen Widerbelbungsversuch sah!

Ich kann meine Wünsche vom letzten Jahr nur wiederholen - auch wenn das jetzt ein bisschen sehr faul klingt (und nicht nur klingt!)

Danke für all eure Hilfe die Site zu einer Gemeinschaft aufzubauen.

Just let me revive my Christmas wishes from last year (I'm a bit too lazy to search for a new picture right now, besides I'm going to have a calm Christmas Evening myself )

Merry Christmas to all of you - enjoy our staff's Christmas wishes on our home page and the wonderful picture blackdid managed to create for our site!

You will allow me to attach some midi files to enjoy Christmas

This year I selected some calmer music though, for the reason have a look at my signature

05havey.mid
appcarol.mid
auld-lan.mid
deck-the.mid
echoxmas.mid
fidels.mid
joyworld.mid
lookalot.mid
nutcrack.mid
xmas-med.mid

Sorry for being a bit late with my answer  

As a first thing let me say something about the usage of my expression "denunciation". In my posting i intentionally wrote that in apostrophes to express that I prefer technical possibilities to stop unfair behavior opposed to member reports (with or without proof).

And just at the start:
@blackdid:

My question is : what are the options you have when you discover nadvertently the situation described in pic 3 ?

1. You do nothing ("it doesn't concern me, why should I interfere and alert anyone ?")
2. Or you immediately send a message to HelpDesk (without sending them any pic) and let Mods solve that issue.
3. Or you take a snapshot, upload it on BitBucket, alert HelpDesk (including the Bitbucket link) and let Mods solve that issue with a proof in their hands.

1. isn't an option IMHO - that is why we have the report button in our forum, in user profiles, in PM handling, in torrent details …

Not to mention your already stated reasons against this option.

The problem with the report solution and your option 2 is in fact the proof. Not all mods on the site can react immediately on such requests (reports or help desk request) - so it may take a couple of hours until we can see the torrent file - only after the visible proof is gone and the only remaining solution is to deduct what has happened some hours ago. Of course there are "easy" cases where the torrent is still not snatched and several seeders, but in other cases there are 200 seeders already and more than 500 entries in the snatched list. It takes a lot of efforts to find a "jumping on" seeder then - if ever possible.

BTW: you can also include a bitbucket link in a report-reason

So: the only remaining option to handle such cases is your option 3) or, the solution you selected too, to PM that seeder directly. I hope that such problems can be resolved also in that way

As you can see we (staff) try to solve such problems as best as we can. As I said at the start of my reply: I prefer technical solutions over reports, but alas the BitTorrent protocol does not offer such a solution and to manually search for such cases might be possible if we have 30 moderators additionally who are experienced enough to watch new uploads for their first seeding time to detect those cases - but: have a look at our staff page - we have enough problems to approve uploaded torrents in a timely manner and, additionally, check samples of auto approved uploads

Reading such news scares me deeply! In the light of the recent "attacks" against Wikileaks I'm strictly against government "regulations" in the Internet!!!

A better solution would be to inform parents about the various existing methods of parental control and teach parents how to effectively use them but foremost help them to educate their children - instead of using computers as a nanny!

@Uwe:

But where can I vote,?

Just use the (closed) threads named {OFFICIAL CONTEST} ! The threads are closed but you can vote also in those closed threads.

Hi blackdid,

as to the way of studios releasing a "new" video with clips out of older ones - don't let me say my real opinion: although I also like some of "remade" clips like the early videos from Jean Daniel Cadinot on the (up to now only) 5 Cadinot classic DVDs. But of course you are right: these ones are clearly marked

As to "jumping on" I already said my opinion here http://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=12710.msg52843#msg52843, alas I can't add something substantial to that. I'm still a bit hesitant to create your suggested "jumping on rules" : I think it is not fair for our whole community to establish some rules which mainly rely on "denunciation" - I have the feeling that something like that could harm our "family group experience" we try to establish. Of course you are right: jumping on a new upload is extremely unfair too! (Btw: you know how to send pics to me ).

Please use only the threads named with {OFFICIAL CONTEST} for your recipes. Thank you and good luck

:lolp: :thankyou: :lovp:

Just one final word:

stealfire - good thing you reported that torrent comment: result: that comment was deleted. If the user contacted you otherwise: please report such PMs too so we can take further measures in the future. Insulting/flaming PMs usually end up with at least a warning and can/will result in a ban from our site if repeated.

Just a note about torrent comments: We do NOT ALLOW flaming or insulting torrent comments at all (and frown on advertising or spam comments). Alas currently staff does not get information about all posted torrent comments (usually only by accident or by reports). So we need your help to do something to keep order also in torrent comments - that is why there is the report button. (BTW: PMs from certain members (not from staff though) can also be blocked).

We accidentally found some help requests also in torrent comments - be prepared they won't be answered in a timely manner (see above) - the last comment with a support question was answered a year after posting it.

@blackdid:

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Mgr will certainly answer tomorrow concerning this DVD possible issue, in case your upload speed is as low as mine.
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Why is it everyone seems to know me so good ???

@blackid: As to your last questions:

Average upload speed: the reported upload speed of the complete time when you uploaded something (the reported upload traffic divided by the reported time to upload anything). That is, admittedly, just a rough estimate of what a user can in fact upload (when he wants to upload something quickly) - but on the other hand it also tells (at least us) how a user distributes his average load (in case he works with other trackers too).

Take an example: We ask a user who wants to upload more than one torrent at the same time to have at least an upload speed of > 50 kB/s before we will even answer such a request. Now he sends me a speed test result that he is able to upload with 500 kB/s - but his average upload speed was below 5 kB/s. In this case I have to assume that he has either limited his upload bandwidth drastically for BitTorrents or he has other trackers where he uses most of his bandwidth. (That is a true case from the past!) So the Avg. upload speed does not say all, but quite a lot especially when his stats say he has this avg. reached in about 3000 hours. Additionally there is the number of allowed torrents to seed/leech beside a new upload - that number is based on the highest upload speed he reached in the past (in my above example that number was still 1 - which means he had never an upload speed above 20 kB/s). So although we can't see the user's configuration, we get a lot of small parts of a puzzle where we can build a nice picture of the user and his "behavior" as a seeder.

As to your question about acceptable torrent size for a defined upload speed: As a rough rule I agree with the mod's answer "~1 GB" but: (the following is my personal opinion): When I try to download a complete DVD (especially a DVD DL) I DO know what I attempt and I also DO know that it will take some time. <joke>Especially when the uploader is the anxious  type who fears his computer will explode when it is switched on (and even seeding the whole time) longer than two hours in a row.</joke> . I had times where it took me more than 4 weeks to download a complete DVD-DL from an uploader who had decided to seed only 2 hours a day. Such experiences lead me to the knowledge: the most important thing you need with BitTorrents is patience, patience, patience!!!

@cableguyLive:

Taking in account what I wrote before: May be you can (as a first try) upload a smaller version of a complete DVD, but never forget that each and every conversion will reduce the quality of the resulting video - so at least try to upload the complete DVD (the best available quality) afterwards. That will not only bring a good conscious towards quality freaks like me but also a good push to your ratio.

As to patience: I just found a nice quote:

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing

And stop laughing Sometimes it has advantages to be a staff member, f.x. with falsely secured profiles   >:D

I have to ask once more:

@CableguyLive:

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I'm looking for an easy software for copying the DVD's to an AVI format but I haven't mastered the process yet.
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Why bother to reduce the quality of a DVD by converting the DVD to an AVI file? Does only the size bother you and not the quality of the resulting video ???

Vor 2 Minuten funktionierte der Login wieder

@blackdid:

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we should ask Jodie Foster and all Star Trek Crews
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How about asking Bram Cohen (the BitTorrent protocol developer) about such an approach ???

With a heavy heart, we must inform you that a member of our staff, Kinsey 6 (aka Tim) died yesterday.

The full details are not in yet, but we do know that he had a nasty fall and went into a coma on 1 Nov 2010 and passed away on 10 Nov 2010.

He will be sorely missed by both staff and members alike.

@blackdid:

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I would like to know if GT server clock is keeping time correctly.

It may be off from the real time by some seconds (or even minutes) but that "offset" is constant by now

That reminds me of the time one or two years ago where our server time "floated" through timezones during a day (due to a hardware failure) but that "timefloating" is luckily gone

As to your attached pictures:

The peer list is created "on the fly" from our database when you select or refresh that page - the displayed times are correct (not taking in account that there could be some cache programs between our server and your screen
l- like your browser's cache ) "only" for the time when that page is created / refreshed.

So if you create/refresh the page and wait for two hours the page will still show old (by now) times. It does not make sense at all to "auto-refresh" this page (unless you consider "overloading" our server as sense )

A remark to the "checked" column: this column shows the time when the last "announce/start/stop" message came to our server. Usually this time changes around every 30 minutes when our sever asks the client about his last results (or the client contacted the server to send his last results or to start a new torrent or to stop a downloaded torrent or …)

So there is no real time frame because these times are not only server related but a client can send a STOP message and another START message (after reboot f.x.) at every time which will of course change that time stamp after a refresh of that page

@blackdid:

8 bits = 1 Byte
100 bits = 12.5 Bytes
100 kbits = 12500 Bytes = 12.5 KB
100 mbits/s = 12.5 MB/s !

And a last word (for this posting) to your calculation:

It is (roughly ) correct - but only roughly because you mixed up some (earlier used units which are still used on our site today)

see: hXXp://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/code_kbyte_en

earlier:
1 b = 1 bit
1 B = 1 byte ( = 8b)
1 kb = 1000 b
1 kB = 1000 B
1 Kb = 1024 b
1 KB = 1024 B
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so a lowercase letter means either the lower unit (b <-> B) or the lower multiplicand (k <-> K)

As marketing entered the business things changed (I don't dare to say "because they did not understand" )

so the difference now (for fans of exact terms) is

1 kb (= 1 Kb) = 1000 b
1 KiBit (or KibiBit) = 1024 Bit
1 KiByte (or KibiByte) = 1024 Byte
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When the site was created first the unit extension bInary (for the i in KiB) did only exist in drafts and was not yet fully accepted over the world.

Still there is remaining a lot of confusion about bits and bytes - especially in up/download speed measurements. ISPs usually advertise their bandwidth in MB/s which is really MegaBit per second (and a wrong unit in the old usage of units (which should have been mb/s). But show me marketing folk who care about capitals or lowercase (additionally with the easy explanation of "sorry - must be a typo"). (as an example: nowadays TB hard drives calculate 1000 GB as 1 Terabyte ... that is why some OS show a new hard drive with less than announced capacity - same is valid for 1 GB advertised for 1000 KB - do the further calculation yourself 1000 * 1000 ... is less than 1024 * 1024 ... but gives greater figures in advertising 1.5 TB (for a capacity of 1,500,299,264,000 Bytes) looks better than the effective capacity of 1.36451423168182373046875 TebiBytes).

Only our site still uses the older units of KB/s (= 1024 byte per second) ... which most BitTorrent clients use too.

Bottom line: as a first measure divide your ISP speed measures by 8 to get measurements in Bytes instead of bits and take in account the binary calculation mentioned above to learn your effective speeds. Not taking in account that all ISPs (at least in Germany) don't give the upload speed any longer in their advertising - you have to ask for that value separately and if you are lucky you get a correct answer at your third or fourth call-center attempt).

To give an answer to your (for sure :)) upcoming questions "Why does GayTorrent.ru still show the older units?" already now: (I DO know, it is not correct to answer a question with a counter-question): Do you know how many times we use those old units on our complete site? (Bluntly: I don't know - and we have more work to do than changing the display of units from KB -> KiBiBytes, MB -> MebiBytes, ...)